Aderhold v. United States

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

Upon evidence procured by a search of his premises, appellant was convicted of violating the internal revenue laws relating to intoxicating liquor. His sole contention on appeal is that his motion to quash the search warrant, and to suppress the evidence obtained thereby, should have been sustained because the warrant was not issued upon probable cause.

The warrant was issued by the Commissioner upon the affidavit of C. D. Norman, in which the probable cause of affiant’s belief was stated to be the affidavit of Henry Baxter that, at a stated time at the premises of…